Recorded stay on the 2022 Summer time Mountain Retreat, Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman, and Raghu Markus discover the true essence of affection by the lenses of service, social motion, and selflessness.
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On this episode, Sharon, Robert, and Raghu maintain a dialogue on:
- Reframing love as a capability we will develop, somewhat than a fleeting emotion
- Taking accountability for love—actively cultivating it as an alternative of ready for it to reach
- Recognizing genuine love as a deep sense of connection
- Understanding the etymology of metta, the Buddhist idea of loving-kindness and the honest want for an additional’s happiness
- Contemplating if we will genuinely want happiness for others if we aren’t completely happy ourselves
- Figuring out the pitfalls of ego-driven self-love and the way it disrupts true bliss and religious connection
- Shifting past religious ego—being actual and grounded as an alternative of feeling superior for merely meditating
- Reflecting on how Ram Dass radiated full, compassionate consideration to everybody round him
- Embracing love as essentially the most highly effective unseen pressure within the universe
- Studying to overlook ourselves and awaken true happiness by compassion and loving-awareness
- Dealing with the problem of training loving-awareness with these closest to us—usually the toughest check of all
“After I considered love as a sense, it was additionally a commodity. It was in another person’s arms and so they might bestow it upon me, or, they may take it away from me…once I consider it as a capability, it’s a capability inside me that different individuals would possibly awaken or encourage or threaten, however finally it’s mine. It’s mine to tender, it’s my accountability.”– Sharon Salzberg
About Sharon Salzberg:
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned instructor, and New York Occasions bestselling writer. She is likely one of the first to convey mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American tradition over 45 years in the past, inspiring generations of meditation lecturers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Perception Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the writer of twelve books, together with the New York Occasions bestseller, Actual Happiness, now in its second version, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed 5 million downloads and options interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness motion and past. Be taught extra about Sharon and her books at www.sharonsalzberg.com
About Robert Thurman:
Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Research within the Division of Faith at Columbia College and President of the Tibet Home U.S., and is the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Research. His new ebook, Knowledge Is Bliss: 4 Pleasant Enjoyable Details That Can Change Your Life, is now obtainable.
About Raghu Markus:
Raghu Markus spent two years in India with Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. He has been concerned in music and transformational media because the early Nineteen Seventies. Presently, he’s the Govt Director of the Love Serve Bear in mind Basis and hosts the Mindrolling Podcast on the Be Right here Now Community. Together with Duncan Trussell, Raghu additionally not too long ago co-created The Film of Me to the Film of We.
